WR HOU Week 5 · PPR

Start or sit Nico Collins?

The verdict comes from our weekly projection model: last season's opportunity-based xFP/g shrunk toward the position mean, then adjusted for role, injury status, the opponent's fantasy points allowed and the Vegas game total vs the league average.

Start

#5 WR projection this week — comfortable start.

Start call: Nico Collins projects for 14.5 PPR points this week, ranked #5 among WRs by our projection model. @TEN is a soft matchup for WRs — the model applies a +12% swing to his projection. Vegas posts the total at 43.5 — 92% of the 47.2 league average for week 5.

Season projection table

PPR · weeks 1–18

Nico Collins projected PPR points by week, weeks 1 through 18
Wk Proj (PPR)
1 12.0
2 11.7
3 15.4
4 15.7
5 this week 14.5
6 13.0
7 14.2
8 —
9 12.8
10 12.4
11 15.4
12 15.3
13 14.7
14 14.6
15 13.6
16 11.2
17 13.7
18 15.1

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